After MRIA’s demise, new polling industry group aims to set ‘high bar’

By Neil MossSep. 5, 2018

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Nik Nanos, pictured, and fellow polling industry leaders have teamed up to start a new polling association. The Hill Times file photograph

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A month after a national polling association shut its doors, a new one has popped up. The who's who of Canadian polling joined forces to open the currently nameless new polling association on Aug. 30. âWe have a rare opportunity here to start fresh as an emerging industry association and to set a really high bar,â Don Mills, the chair of Corporate Research Associates and co-chair of the new association's interim board, said in a statement. âOur objective

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